Question

In a novel from this country, a girl realizes she is a fictional character after receiving postcards containing a philosophy course. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this home country of the author of the children’s book Sophie’s World. The Nobel laureates Sigrid Undset and Knut Hamsun wrote in this country.
ANSWER: Norway [or Kingdom of Norway or Kongeriket Norge]
[10h] This Swedish author wrote a children’s book about Nils, who is shrunk down to fly with wild geese. This first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature wrote about a defrocked priest in Gosta Berling’s Saga.
ANSWER: Selma Lagerlöf (“LAH-ger-loff”) [or Selma Otillia Lovisa Lagerlöf]
[10e] This Danish author’s unrequited crushes on Jenny Lind and Edvard Collin may have influenced his children’s fairy tales, such as “The Snow Queen,” “The Little Mermaid,” and “The Ugly Duckling.”
ANSWER: Hans Christian Andersen
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